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Is replacing HHD with SSD for iMac hard?
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I just finished cloning my 2017 21" iMac (1TB spinner) using Fishrrman's directions and it is now better than new. I picked up a 1TB Sandisk Extreme SSD ($140 @ Costco) The cloning took a little over 3 hours for the 350GB used on the original harddrive.
The difference in performance is dramatic. System Preferences appears instantaneously. MS Office was practically unusable before... 52 icon "bounces" + 12 more seconds to get MS Word up. Now, 4 bounces and it appears. I'm checking to make sure that Time Machine is backing up this new drive rather than the internal drive...but other than that, I'm ready to rock n roll.
This is the 2nd iMac I've done this to. (the first, a 2013 21", has been re-purposed to be my Plex server 2 years ago and it is still speeding along) For anyone who is considering doing this, I highly recommend it. The process is dead simple, the cost of quality drives has come way down, and the benefits are well worth it.
The difference in performance is dramatic. System Preferences appears instantaneously. MS Office was practically unusable before... 52 icon "bounces" + 12 more seconds to get MS Word up. Now, 4 bounces and it appears. I'm checking to make sure that Time Machine is backing up this new drive rather than the internal drive...but other than that, I'm ready to rock n roll.
This is the 2nd iMac I've done this to. (the first, a 2013 21", has been re-purposed to be my Plex server 2 years ago and it is still speeding along) For anyone who is considering doing this, I highly recommend it. The process is dead simple, the cost of quality drives has come way down, and the benefits are well worth it.